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{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2011}} {{short description|Overview of rail transport in Victoria, Australia}} {{Infobox rail | railroad_name = Railways of Victoria | logo_filename = Victoria train logo.svg | logo_size = 100px | logo_alt = Regional Victoria train network logo | system_map = File:Victorian-railway-network-map.svg | map_caption = Victorian railway network as at 2014, passenger lines in colour, freight only lines in grey | marks = | locale = [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], Australia | start_year = 1854 | end_year = present | predecessor_line = | successor_line = | gauge = {{Track gauge|1600mm|lk=on}} broad gauge,<br /> {{Track gauge|sg|lk=on}} standard,<br /> some {{Track gauge|1067mm|lk=on}} and {{Track gauge|762mm|lk=on}} narrow gauge | length = 1712 km passenger, 4129 km total.<ref name="rtsa">{{cite web | title = Victoria's Regional Railway Past, Present and Potential | work = RTSA Regional Rail Symposium, Wagga Wagga | date = 1 February 2007 | url = http://www.rtsa.com.au/events/conferences/fffrr/text-for-rtsa-wagga-presentation-20070107.pdf | author = John Hearsch| access-date = 8 February 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070830043728/http://www.rtsa.com.au/events/conferences/fffrr/text-for-rtsa-wagga-presentation-20070107.pdf |archive-date = 30 August 2007 }}</ref> | hq_city = }}{{Victoria railway lines}}{{More citations needed|date=January 2023}} Rail transport in the [[Australian state]] of [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] is provided by a number of railway operators who operate over the government-owned [[railway]] lines. The network consists of 2,357 km of [[Victorian broad gauge]] ({{RailGauge|1600mm}}) lines, and 1,912 km of [[standard gauge]] ({{RailGauge|1435mm}}) freight and interstate lines; the latter increasing with [[Rail gauge in Australia|gauge conversion]] of the former. Historically, a few experimental {{RailGauge|762mm}} [[Narrow gauge lines of the Victorian Railways|gauge]] lines were built, along with various private logging, mining and industrial railways. The rail network radiates from the state capital, Melbourne, with main interstate links to Sydney and to [[Adelaide]], as well as major lines running to regional centres,<ref name="awaugh">{{cite web | title = Victorian Railway Maps 1860β2000 | work = Victorian Railways Resources | publisher = Andrew Waugh | url = http://www.vrhistory.com/VRMaps/ | access-date = 5 February 2008 | archive-date = 11 October 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071011020812/http://www.vrhistory.com/VRMaps/ | url-status = live }}</ref> upgraded as part of the [[Regional Fast Rail project]] and the [[Regional Rail Revival project]]. The government-owned [[VicTrack]] owns all railway and tram lines, associated rail lands and other rail-related infrastructure in Victoria,<ref>[https://www.victrack.com.au/en/we-are-victrack/~/media/Documents/We%20are%20VicTrack/Documents/VicTrack%20annual%20report%202012-13.ashx Annual Report 30 June 2013] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140105034736/https://www.victrack.com.au/en/we-are-victrack/~/media/Documents/We%20are%20VicTrack/Documents/VicTrack%20annual%20report%202012-13.ashx |date=5 January 2014 }} VicTrack</ref> which it leases to [[Public Transport Victoria]] which then sublets assets and infrastructure as appropriate to rail and tram operators. The state has four railway networks: * [[Metro Trains Melbourne]] operates Melbourne's [[Railways in Melbourne|electrified metropolitan network]] providing passenger services with [[Electric Multiple Units|electric multiple units]], * [[V/Line]] operates the [[List of regional railway stations in Victoria|country passenger network]] with diesel trains, * [[Australian Rail Track Corporation]] leases from VicTrack the standard gauge tracks from Melbourne to [[Albury]] and to [[Serviceton]] to operate the interstate Melbourne-Adelaide and Melbourne-Sydney services, and * the grain network in the north west of the state, connected to the ports at Geelong and Portland.<ref name="awaugh" /> Freight services are operated by [[Southern Shorthaul Railroad]], [[Pacific National]] and [[SCT Logistics]] (interstate and intrastate), and [[Qube Holdings#Rail|Qube Logistics]] (intrastate). Victoria does not have a dominant mining base as with other states, and has traditionally been more dependent on agriculture for rail freight traffic.<ref name="newsrails-grain">{{Victorian Rail-Newsrail|title=V/Line Grain Handling|author=Peter Foote|month=10|year=1987|pages=292β297}}</ref> By the 1990s [[road transport]] had captured most general freight traffic,<ref name="rtsa" /> with an average of only 6.1 million tonnes of intrastate freight carried each year between 1996 and 1998;<ref name="rtsa" /> containers being the major cargo, followed by cement, logs, quarry products and steel.
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